From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 19 10:25:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA08004 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA07987 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:25:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA10907; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:25:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA05498; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:25:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 11:25:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199711191825.LAA05498@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stephen Roome Cc: Nate Williams , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance In-Reply-To: References: <199711191807.LAA05380@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Seriously, almost all unix programs store times/date as milliseconds > > since 1970, so they don't have a Y2K problem, but they have the Year > > 2038 problem. However, it's hoped that by the time this comes about the > > number used to store the time will be bumped to a much bigger #, making > > the problem go away. > > Yes, but what about packages and apps which get installed as the default > system which don't do this ? They aren't FreeBSD. They are ports and packages, and there simply isn't the resource available to certify each and every package. If the package affects you, then certify it yourself and tell the world. For all the packages that I'm interested in (mostly development tools), there is no issue. And, the OS and system utilities have no Y2K problems (cvs/rcs did, but I believe they've been updated), so it's not an issue for the OS. Nate